State Medicaid Profiles offer a dashboard of key MCO players and enrollment, recent policy actions, and pharmacy trends for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This profile is ba…
State Medicaid Profiles offer a dashboard of key MCO players and enrollment, recent policy actions, and pharmacy trends for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This profile is ba…
State Medicaid Profiles offer a dashboard of key MCO players and enrollment, recent policy actions, and pharmacy trends for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. This profile is ba…
Commercial enrollment in North Carolina and South Carolina increased slightly between January 2010 and January 2010. However, a lagging economy continues to make increased market share a difficult pro…
The recent renewal cycle was especially challenging for employers in the Carolinas, owing to the poor economy and new requirements under federal healthcare reform. Carriers continued to increase copay…
The only plans in the South seeing significant enrollment growth are Medicaid and Medicare plans. Congress' approval of another FMAP extension is enabling states to avoid deep Medicaid cuts for no…
Commercial carriers are trying to weather uncertain times as the government imposes new regulations under health reform. In advance of new rules governing medical loss ratios, Bradley Wilson, the new…
Uncertainty about the economy and the effects of health reform put a damper on the South's health insurance market. Commercial enrollment is essentially flat in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ten…
Stakeholders in the healthcare industry are looking at the health reform law, planning ways to minimize losses and take advantage of opportunities. In North Carolina, federal and state high risk pools…
Unable to reach a compromise between the House and Senate, Florida's state Legislature did not expand Medicaid Reform, which requires beneficiaries in certain counties elect to join an HMO or a Pr…
Managed Medicaid continues to evolve in South Carolina with the consolidation of plans, peaks in enrollment and proposed cost containment measures. To help keep Medicaid prescription drug costs in lin…
Employers in North Carolina and South Carolina are turning to so-called hybrid plans to help them continue to offer coverage in one of the regions worst hit by job losses. The hybrid plans combine fea…
Florida Medicare Advantage plans are reacting to reduced reimbursements by scaling back benefits and raising costs to their HMO members for 2010. The change, which comes as the federal government is c…
Enrollment in Medicare Advantage continues to grow in the South though private-fee-for-service plans are leaving the market in anticipation of the Congressional mandate for network-based products in 2…
South Carolina's expanded Medicaid managed care program attracted a crowd of health plans interested in insuring beneficiaries, but the crowd is thinning with two MCOs throwing in the towel in 200…